Back to basics – let us learn how to clear browsing history in popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Safari. Browser caching, though meant for speed up your browsing experience, can result in blocking the access to the website in many ways. On Chrome, you can see different errors like or mostly caused by the corrupted history files. Other browser also show similar errors in such case.

Oct 19, 2018 - Check how to clean cache on Mac manually or clear it with a click of a button. Here's how to clear browser cache in Chrome manually.

Like restarting solves most of the computer problems, deleting history solves most of the browser related issues. How to Clear Browsing History?

Mac os cursor for windows 10. • What is browsing history and cache? • Delete history in Chrome • Clear history in Edge • Remove single and complete history in Firefox • Delete history in Safari Mac • Cleanup history in Safari iOS (iPhone and iPad) • Warning before clearing browser history and cache 1. What is Browsing History? Speed is an important factor when using Internet.

Especially, will consume higher mobile data which in turns lead to higher cost for the user. So, when you open a website, your browser will start caching the source files. These include fonts, scripts, stylesheets, images and other temporary files. When a website is opened in a browser, the source web server sends the content to browser with the cache expiry duration for each file type. Let’s say, the web server sends a response with 10 days expiry for all PNG image files. The browser will cache all PNG image files for next 10 days till the time of cache expiry. When you access the site within 10 days, all PNG images will be loaded from the browser’s cache instead of using from server.

How Browser Caching Works? What are the Files Cached by a Browser? Below are some of the information a browser will store in a cache or temporary storage. Remember, this will change based on your browser and settings. • Image files like PNG, JPEG and GIF • CSS and JavaScript files • Cookies and site data • History of browsing, that is remembering all the accessed webpages. • Remembering all the downloaded files • Filled form data and password When some of the cached data is corrupted or outdated then it will prevent in accessing the website.

Thus deleting the browsing history and cached files will help to reload the fresh content from the server. Though this will lead long page loading time, it will resolve your browsing problems.

Clear Browsing History in Google Chrome There are three ways to access the clear browser data dialog box in Chrome: • Go to the URL “chrome://settings/clearBrowserData”. • Use the shortcut keys “Command + Shift + Delete” in Mac and “Control + Shift + Delete” in Windows to open the clear browser data dialog box. • Go to “Settings (three dots on top right corner) > More Tools > Clear Browsing Data”.

You will see a dialog box like below with many options. Go to basic or advanced tab and choose the time range as “All time” from the dropdown. Clear Browsing History in Safari Mac Apple works differently than other companies and Safari is one of the best example for that. Even some people does not recognize Safari as a browser due to the reason it can’t be used on other platforms like Windows.